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As officers of the Citizens Alliance for Property Rights (CAPR), an organization with 31 chapters in WashingtonState and California dedicated to protecting and promoting property rights for all Americans, we are writing you torequest that the Department of the Interior make the impact on local communities a primary consideration whendetermining whether to approve tribal requests to convert land outside their reservations from fee to trust. This hasbecome a controversial issue in many jurisdictions in our two states and we suspect across the nation as a whole.